Research Case Studies
Case study examples of where Health Data Research UK has enabled research across the UK.
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BREATHE is enabling the use of Electronic Health Records in respiratory research
Demonstrating HDR UKs vision to unite the UK’s health data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives, BREATHE – The Health Data Research Hub for...
Cancer, multimorbidity and risk of death in the pandemic
Analysis of urgent referrals for cancer diagnosis data from eight UK hospitals alongside death records from the Office for National Statistics were used to examine the impact of COVID-19 on the...
The Informatics Consult – feasibility to generate new evidence in clinical timescales?
Clinicians are often faced with a treatment dilemma; they are uncertain whether to give a drug or not. Indeed the majority of treatment recommendations in clinical guidelines are not supported by...
Uncovering existing drugs that can treat COVID-19
With millions of people around the world falling ill with COVID-19, there is an urgent need to find drugs that may help against the virus. But developing new medicines is a time-consuming...
PRINCIPLE – accelerated recruitment for Clinical Trials through rapid access to large, linked datasets and integrated patient engagement
A novel, collaborative approach based on making key datasets available has led to significantly enhanced recruitment to PRINCIPLE - an important clinical trial supporting research into potential...
The RECOVERY Trial: Findings so far
The RECOVERY Trial has been set up in record time to test drugs against COVID-19 and findings thus far have informed policy and saved lives.
A data asset to support multimorbidity research
Multimorbidity researchers in Swansea have developed a protocol to explore the most deeply phenotyped population cohort in the UK – created by HDR UK investment.
Accelerometer measured physical activity and the incidence of cardiovascular disease
Aiden Doherty and colleagues have harnessed data from wearables to better understand the link between exercise and cardiovascular disease.
Associations between pre-pregnancy psychosocial risk factors and infant outcomes
Katie Harron, Ruth Gilbert and colleagues, have developed a new method to link health records of mothers and babies through exploring the relationship between psychosocial maternal risk factors...